Human beings use many things as markers in their lives.  I guess I should say, “in our lives,” since I am also a human being.
We use birthdays, summer vacations, harvest seasons, Christmases, and the really big one: New Year’s day.  Such markers give us an opportunity to both reflect on the past and plan, postulate [...]

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The Birth of Jesus as recorded in the Gospel of Luke:
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.  And he came to her and [...]

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Have a good Christmas, everyone.
Since the age of about 15, I have been traveling the United States, Canada and Mexico.  In my teens, I remember sleeping under shrubs just outside of L.A., trying to sleep in the middle of Oklahoma, curled up on a concrete doorstep of some office building, sleeping in abandoned cars, and [...]

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